Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News
 

• The New York Times assails McDonald’s’ fat profits and lean wages
   
• Journalist hit with antisemitic abuse over GQ profile of Melania Trump
   
• The CIA waterboarded the wrong man 83 times in a month
   
• The Canadian shelter that gives wine to homeless alcoholics 
   
• The School of Authentic Journalism is now accepting applications for its Class of 2016
   
• “I hope you get raped again,” guys read female sportswriters’ hate tweets out loud

The Best of the Week’s News

• The explosive Panama Papers prove we can afford a Universal Basic Income 
   
• The editorial mastermind of the Panama Papers, Gerard Ryle, won a Sidney Award in 2012 
   
• Brown rice: a great source of fiber, ennui, and arsenic 
   
• NOLA judge releases inmates accused of murder and rape because there’s no money for public defenders
   

The winners of the 2016 Canadian Hillman Prizes have been announced. Congratulations to all the winners and their news outlets! 

Winners

The judges chose three pieces that brought to light critical new information on the subject of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada and contributed to the federal government’s decision to call an inquiry into this tragedy.

“A Country’s Crisis: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women,” The Globe and Mail 

“SQ abuse: women break the silence,” Radio-Canada’s Enquête 

“Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Honorable Mentions

“The Skin I’m In,” Toronto Life

“Known to Police,” The Toronto Star

“Minding the Monster,” The Walrus

Click here for the complete list of the winning journalists and descriptions of their outstanding contributions to Canadian journalism.

Click here for the Globe’s coverage of the win.  

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• How to have a safe abortion when politicians are scheming to take it away. 
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Bob Ortega explains why the Second Amendment is killing us. 
   
• Hillman Judge Jelani Cobb on “The Matter of Black Lives.”
   
• Nabisco ships 600 Oreo jobs from Chicago to Mexico.